Re: the long way to the development of a compiler

Stefano Lanzavecchia wrote:


> I guess what I am really looking for is a set of reasonably well
> documented sample programs, that implement simple compilers with
> simple, but working back-ends (but a recommendation for a book would
> be equally good).


I liked "A retargetable C compiler: Design and Implementation" by Fraser
and others. Complete source code for a C compiler except preprocessor,
quite readable, and you can also download the source from some webpage
(search for lcc compiler). Not too difficult, backends for a few
different processors. Not very optimising, the major optimisation is
optimal instruction selection but no scheduling, loop optimisations etc.

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